Reviews by BeerAngel:

This beer pours with a slightly hazed tea color with a massive cream colored dense head that is characteristic of a belgian style beer. The smell consists of a nice fruit and spice aroma with slight musty yeast notes in the background. Quite nice so far! The taste is a bit of a let down after the smell builds the expectations. It has a mild seltzer taste with very faint fruit, perhaps raisins far in the background followed by a light dry bitterness bringing back the seltzer fizz. What a let down. Where does something that smells so nice, hide the taste? This medium bodied beer finishes just slightly dry. Good start to this experience and then the rug was yanked out from under me. Cheers anyways.

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An interesting find today at Pipe and Pint,poures a nice copper color with a onefinger tight head that leaves a small amount of lace behind,big caramel and biscuit aromas with atouch of fruit seems to be malt dominated at least aroma wise.Big malts dominate in flavor as well up front some caramel and toffee but with a more firm dry biscuit backbone to keep it from being overly sweet,some herbal hop comes thru late alot more as it warms.Not a bad little beer here drink it cool not cold alot more complexities show thru as it warms.

A: eh. fine, nothing great. not as much head as I would expect or prefer for the style. medium golden body. honeyed.

S: some yeast and fruit, prominent apple.

T/M: prickly carbonation, though the body is a little thin. a touch soft, with mid palate sweetness that dries on the finish. yeast and fruit are obvious and well balanced for the most part. orange, apple, caramel, and some dry husk qualities as well.

D: very quaffable just not that interesting. not a chore by any means but not intriquing enough for another.

Thanks to kmpitz2 for bestowing this one upon me. Pours from the bottle a crisp clear amber with hints of red. A small bubbly head forms and then quickly ceases to exist. Spotty lacing is left in its wake. Aromas of sweet caramel toffee, spicy yeast, apples, pears plums, cotton candy. Slightly grainy with a hint of rum raisin. Not bad overall but a bid on the understated side.

First sip brings a caramelly maltiness upfront that features toasted grains, cotton candy and a nice fruity profile. A bit raisiny on the way down with a dash of earthy yeast. An interstering brew that is slightly odd...doesn't really fit the style.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a slick creaminess that makes it pretty easy to drink. This one was interesting enough..but this just doesn't grab me enough to make me want to come back for more.

T - Some sour fruit flavors that turn into more subtle dark fruits like prunes. There is a little caramel, but not much. There is a sour finish of citrus fruit that sits on the front of your tongue at the end of the sip along with some yeast flavor.

M - The head is pretty creamy and fluffy.

O - This beer looks nice and is trying hard to be a Belgian Pale Ale. However ,the nose and flavor profile don't quite make it. There are hints of the genre, but it is lacking overall.

12oz brown bottle (no freshness date), releases a dirty peach with some bright copper hues. Pours a 3 finger head that's white, foamy, and sticks all over the glass and leaves its trail as you drink it down. Good retention. Watch out for the dark dregs in the bottle.

Soft floral plum in the nose, with suggestions of honey, white pepper spiciness and bell peppers.

Light-ish body, crisp, with an even feel about it. Nutty, yeasty, wheat-like tannins, with a toasty caramel flavor, but then it's gone. Some sour / tartness melds with a moderate watery rind bitterness with hop leaf notes. This part is actually quite quenching and more-ish at the same time. Dry tannic finish is slightly overwhelming, and a bit of a mood killer.

Too many tannins for me, and not enough sweetness / malt profile to balance things out. If this is Karma, when do I get the balance?

Pours a clear amber color with a nice two finger head. Sticky lacing down side of glass. Aroma is sweet malts with some spices and banana in the background. Taste is fruity yeast with the sweet malts as the backbone. A little too cloying for me with the sweetness staying in the mouth. Average drinkability means it lasted me over an hour, a rarity.

A - Pours a light golden color, with a one-finger head of loose eggshell-white foam that almost immediately disappears, leaving a ring around the edge and a small island in the middle. Held to a full-spectrum light, the beer is a golden orange, slightly opaque, and has a pronounced pillar of bubbles rising from the center of the bottom of the glass.

S - Freshly toasted malts, caramel sugars, and light floral hops. Notes of toffee with hints of vanilla and orange peel. As it warms, I can begin to pull more fruits such as raisins and ripe pears out of the nose. The alcohol also peeks through.

T - Lightly toasted malts and soft caramel quickly give way to earthy but subtle bittering hops, and both are on the subdued side. Reminds me of a lighter-styled Marzen that's been hopped to match the sugars, and then had the entire taste profile muffled. There's also just a touch of booziness more in line with a 7%+ brew.

O - I remember finding this beer tasty and refreshing when I first tasted it in the summer on draft. Now that it's December, it seems rather thin, but when the days are long and warm, it's a good way to enjoy a nice malt-sugar/hop balanced profile without getting weighed down. This will be something I look for heading into Oktoberfest season. When I went to post, I discovered this beer is classified as a Belgium Pale Ale. With that as the target, I would like to see more nuance in the malt/sugar profile and a bit more finish to remind me of the tastes that just passed over my tongue.

12 oz bottle pours a clear and radiant orange/copper body with two inches of beige head. Retention is good and plenty of patch lace is left behind. Aroma is muted, with notes of bread dough, vague spices, apricot, and a hint of lime. Mouthfeel is light medium bodied with soft moderated carbonation and some yeast chalkiness. Taste has notes of spicy raisinbread, hints of pepper and coriander, and some apricot fruitiness. There is an earthy yeast character that is chalky at times. Spicy hops bitterness is pervasive. An interesting offering from Avery. Very average when compared with most Belgian brewed examples of the style.

12 ouncer sampled w/o any freshness dating to be found. Pours a light copper shade of amber, white head, scattered but still minor lacing. Malty nose, with some juniper and gin notes tossed in. Fairly full bodied, phenolic, American take on Belgian pale. Avery allways seems to make their brews a little differant and this one does not break the mold.

The beer pours an orange color with a white head. The aroma is flowery hops with some bready malt. The flavor is grapes, flowers and oranges with some lighter malts. A very fruity tasting Belgian ale. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

Nearly clear copper with a bubbly white head. Weak aroma of yeast and spice. Light taste with mostly yeast, bread, and a faint fruity/citrus taste. Average mouthfeel for the style. Lacking in body or substance that would set this apart as a "Belgian" pale ale. Altogether, this is like a Belgian-lite.

Poured from a 12oz bottle into 20oz Harp pint glass. Firm pour results in a minimal wispy head composed of champaign like bubbles. Light fruit esters on the nose hints of candy sugar, hardly noticeable fresh bread. Light lacing on glass. Very mild hop taste initially followed by malt, very light candy sugar and fruit esters. Banana and hint of berry and bread. Nice smooth finish. Very easy drinking beer, would like a bit more hop bittering in the finish. Fair mouth feel and very easy to drink. A decent execution of the style. Very sessionable.

3oz sample at the Spagio Cellar's October Beer Social--Adam Avery is present, and laments that he must leave his "Demons of Ale" line in the car due to silly Ohio ABV laws.

The color is copper with a golden orange hue. The warm and toasty nose is comprised of orange and lemon peel, cloven spice, honey and yeast. The flavor profile follows the nose rather closely.

The mouth offers some slight complexity, is bright on the front palate, then bogs down a little in a syrupy morass, then a surpising nip of alcohol for a 5.2 ABV beer on the back.

Certaintly not a bad brew--I haven't sampled anything from Avery that I would not gladly imbibe--but this one seems some what lightweight and lacking in character, a bit off balance. Not one of the best from Avery.